October 2011: Recent Releases
October 15, 2011
VTK 5.8.0 Released VTK 5.8.0 was released on September 15, 2011. This major release contains several noteworthy additions and improvements. The VTK 5.8.0 release provides binary packages of the vtk tcl interpreter and vtkpython for Windows, Mac and Linux, which will be available on the download page. The Python wrappers for this release were expanded […]

A yt Plugin for ParaView
October 15, 2011
The yt project (http://yt-project.org/) aims to provide a set of analysis and visualization tasks for astrophysical datasets, primarily drawn from hydrodynamic simulations. yt has been used to analyze the formation of the first stars in the universe, galaxy mergers, present day star formations, and galaxy clusters. It is built in Python, is parallelized with mpi4py, […]

SimpleITK – Image Processing for Human Beings
October 15, 2011
The year 2011 has been a great one for ITK. The large-scale effort of revising, accelerating and simplifying the toolkit is coming to fruition with the upcoming release of ITKv4. Among the many interesting novelties of ITKv4, one that we anticipate making a big impact is the new simplified API layer that has been developed […]

CMake 2.8.6 available for download
October 4, 2011
On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach, Ben and the rest of the CMake team from all around the world, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.6 is now available for download at: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D It is also available from the usual download links found on the CMake web site: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html […]

VTK 5.8.0 Released
September 14, 2011
Kitware and the VTK team are pleased to announce the release of VTK 5.8.0, a major release containing several noteworthy additions and enhancements. There are numerous improvements to the Python wrappers including the addition of many classes, methods, and constants that were not previously wrapped, along with support for unicode strings arguments, two-dimensional array arguments, […]

CMake 2.8.6-rc3 ready for testing!
September 9, 2011
The CMake 2.8.6 release candidate stream continues! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D If you want to test this out and ask for a fix, do it soon, or hold your peace till the next release! I expect we will finalize the 2.8.6 release by mid-September. This release candidate we do not […]

Kitware Continues to Grow in June
July 19, 2011
Kitware welcomed three new full-time employees and five interns throughout the month of June. Ilknur Kabul and Joe Snyder joined the medical team, Kyle Lutz joined the scientific visualization team, and five additional interns have joined Kitware for the summer. Ilknur Kabul joined Kitware as a member of the medical team at the Carrboro office. […]

Issue RADAR Using Git/Master/MANTIS
July 15, 2011
Kitware has a track record for applying agile software development processes to our projects. Since each project is unique in its needs and workflow, the same processes are not used for every project. We use mainstream development models like SCRUM [1] , Kanban [2] , and even waterfall [3], but we typically adapt the process […]

Scalable Visual System for Nonproliferation Analysis
June 10, 2011
Nuclear nonproliferation is in opposition to the spread of nuclear weapons and technology. For the Phase I of the DOE SBIR “Scalable Visual System for Nonproliferation Analysis,” we developed a prototype of a system for analysts interested in retrieving, classifying, and visualizing large quantities of documents related to nonproliferation activities. Our first step was to […]

ParaView 3.10.0 Now Available
March 9, 2011
The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView 3.10.0 final binaries for download on the ParaView download page. The ParaView 3.10.0 release features several notable new features and improvements, described below. For an exhaustive list of the new features and bug-fixes, please refer to the change log at: http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php. For the 3.10 […]

CMake 2.8.4 available for download
February 16, 2011
On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach, Ben and the rest of the CMake team, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.4 is now available for download at: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D It is also available from the usual download links found on the CMake web site: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html Here are the changes for CMake 2.8.4: […]

A Lightweight Image Comparison Library
January 15, 2011
QGoImageCompare was developed in the Megason Lab at Harvard Medical School and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is a library aimed at simple comparison of images. The library provides an easy means to add 2D and 3D image visualization and examination features to a Qt4 application, or the bundled visualization executables can be used […]

CMake 2.8.4-rc1 ready for testing!
January 13, 2011
I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.4 has entered the release candidate stage! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D Following is the list of changes in this release. Please try this version of CMake on your projects and report any issues to the list or the bug tracker. Happy building! -Dave […]

Constraining Values with ComboBoxes in CMake (cmake-gui)
November 28, 2010
In cmake-gui, a list of CMake “options” and “cache entries” are presented to the developer building your project so they can make adjustments to various aspects of your project’s build. For example, a common option is BUILD_SHARED_LIBS . If set to ON , then add_library calls default to producing shared libraries. Otherwise, add_library calls default to producing […]

The Need for Indoor Plumbing
November 12, 2010
I’ve been in the business of creating and deploying scientific software for more years than I’ll admit to. Over these many years, there have been several constants: the work is challenging, fun, and makes a positive impact on our society. Another constant is the way work like this is funded, typically by large research organizations […]

CMake 2.8.3 available for download
November 4, 2010
On behalf of myself, Ken, Bill, Brad, Alex, Zach, Ben and the rest of the CMake team, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.3 is available for download at: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D Within the next day or two, it will also be available from the usual download links found on the CMake web site: http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html Here are the changes for CMake 2.8.3: […]

CMake 2.8.3-rc4 ready for testing!
November 2, 2010
The CMake 2.8.3 release candidate stream continues! You can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/?C=M;O=D EXCEPT: There are not yet Irix or Sun pre-built binary installers available for CMake 2.8.3-rc4. There is a failing (HTML documentation validity checking) test on some platforms that appears to be unrelated to any CMake source code changes. That […]

3D Slicer is an open-source (BSD-style license) platform for medical image segmentation, registration, visualization and analysis. It represents a practical integration of innovations from a multitude of fields including medical image analysis, cross-platform software development, collaborative software development and extensible platform design. Kitware has been closely involved in many of these innovations. In particular, 3D […]
